Why do people fear the spread of islam?

[Who Am I?]

It's simple, really. People fear what they don't understand, and most people don't even want to make the effort to learn the truth. They would rather continue in their attitudes of fear and ignorance because it's easy. It's easy to keep fearing what you don't understand, and this fear eventually turns into hatred.

It's hard to break out of that mold and try to learn something for yourself. Everyone around you expects you to act a certain way, say certain things, be a certain kind of person. Governments want robots they can control and influence, and free thinkers undermine that. Independent free thought is discouraged in modern society, and such people are ridiculed and reviled for being "soft".

I should know. It has happened and is happening to me almost every day.

 

[Insaanah]

I can't speak for everyone,

Good.

but I think the spread of Islam can cause concern in light of what happened to the Copts, Armenians, Greeks, Serbs, and other ethnic and religious minorities under Islamic rule.

Under Muslim rule in Spain, Christians and Jews were allowed to practice their faith. Muslims, Christians and Jews intermingled and learned from one another, in the most golden period in Spain's history.

What happened under Christian rule? Forced conversions, the burning of Arabic texts, whether religious, scientific, or otherwise; all that learning and knowledge, burnt. Then the Muslim's language was made illegal, and entire towns destroyed and the populations slaughtered. Jews, who had thrived under Muslim rule, faced similar scenarios, and many of them were killed too. In Aragon alone, during the close of the 15th century, fifty thousand Muslims were put to death.

If we look at the history of the world, Muslims suffered persecution under Christian rule. In the first Crusade, the Christian crusaders murdered almost every inhabitant of Jerusalem. Muslims and Jews were massacred, so the blood ran in the streets ankle high. In the 19th century an estmated five million Muslims were driven out of the Balkans and another five million killed. It was, according to one historian, murderous ethnic cleansing on a stupendous scale. In Bulgaria, an estimated 200,000 were massacred. One can go on and on, and I have only listed a few out of many, many more instances of Muslim persecution under Christian rule.

The West would love for people to think that the spread of Islam is a cause for concern, and that Islam is the root cause of all evil. But nothing could be further from the truth! The harsh truth is that Christianity has a far more brutal history than Islam will ever have, but Christians would like people to ignore that. Muslim rule has been very tolerant in comparison.